How much revenue did A Shelter Full of Cats make?

$43k–$115k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did A Shelter Full of Cats sell?

Q: How many copies did A Shelter Full of Cats sell?

31k to 51k copies, based on its 1k Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 31k–51k; $43k–$115k after Steam's cut $78k–$178k before Steam's cut; from 1k reviews (Overwhelmingly Positive)

Copies are estimated from the public review count, adjusted for release year, and cross-checked against SteamSpy's own estimate.

Did the prediction match what actually happened?

We hid A Shelter Full of Cats and predicted how it would do from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Shelter Full of Cats's, is estimated from Steam reviews.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 17k–90k

best case 228k (In Sound Mind)

Games like A Shelter Full of Cats

A typical game among these

≈ 17k–90k copies

≈ $31k–$301k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019's Steam releases earned $34k or more before Steam's cut, so plan for that or less.

4 of the 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: In Sound Mind at ≈ 174k–283k copies, ≈ $1.2M–$3.2M after Steam's cut.

What their first month looked like

About half the games that made it here had over 310 reviews in their first month; the range was 66 to 709.

The genre you'd be entering

These games: The similar games share Hidden Object (6 of 8) and Story Rich (5 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Horror + Psychological Horror, priced around $25.
When they shipped: The similar games span 2015 to 2024, and 3 of the 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 61 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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